Software apps and online services

Story

1. Introduction

I have discovered the very nice Amazon ECHO and DOT device, which facilitates voice exchange for any people, so I want to experiment how to get some daily alert information (astrological sign for instance,...). This new challenge is a good context to reach the objective.

2. Skill Link

3. Solution

Recently, I have participated partially to a webinar which presents a new skill category : Flash Briefing, and also to AWS (Amazon Web Services) enterprise summit which has presented very interesting principles of serverless lambda architecture , so I think that all that can help to implement the previous objective

But only the steps specific to Flash Briefing are illustrated hereafter :

skill information

default interaction model

configuration - main

configuration - details

Publishing Information and Privacy/Compliance are the same as standard skill.

To be able to test, You need first to select and activate the flash briefing skill on alexa.amazon.com as described below.

select your skill

choose to manage your flash briefing skill

activate your flash briefing skill

It is possible to define several feeds inside the same skill and it will appear as follows on alexa app, the end user can activate or not his preferred feed by clicking on the feed checkbox at right side :

7. Skill Video

8. Conclusion

The Hackster.io challenge has provided good opportunity to experiment new feature of Amazon Skill for ECHO (Dot) device : Flash Briefing within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Serverless Architecture with dynamic management of content